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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 9.10
জয় শ্রীমাধবপুরী কৃষ্ণপ্রেমপূর ।
ভক্তিকল্পতরুর তেঁহো প্রথম অঙ্কুর ॥ ১০ ॥
jaya śrī mādhavapurī kṛṣṇa-prema-pūra
bhakti-kalpatarura teṅho prathama aṅkura
All glories to Śrī Mādhavendra Purī, the storehouse of all devotional service unto Kṛṣṇa! He is a desire tree of devotional service, and it is in him that the seed of devotional service first fructified.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Mādhavendra Purī is praised as the storehouse of all devotional service unto Kṛṣṇa. In him the seed of devotional service first fructified.
He belonged to the disciplic succession from Madhvācārya. In that succession, where worship was full of ritualistic ceremonies, he was the first to exhibit symptoms of love of Godhead.
His poem beginning ayi dīna-dayārdra nātha addresses the Lord as “O supremely merciful Personality of Godhead.” In it is the seed of Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s cultivation of love of Godhead.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Overflowing generosity. The gardener distributes the fruits of love without restriction.
The mood of Ādi 9 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
The seed fructified first in Śrīla Mādhavendra Purī, and then in his disciple Śrī Īśvara Purī. It is figuratively described that both the tree itself and the trunk of the tree are Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 9
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “service”
Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life
Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “merciful”
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “love of godhead”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I looking beyond the performance of ceremonies toward love of Godhead?
Slowly repeat “O supremely merciful Personality of Godhead,” reflecting on love of Godhead as the aim of worship.
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